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People Quotes by Mason Cooley
- People who expect deference resent mere civility.
- Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.
- Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.
- Lonely people keep up a ceaseless flow of commentary on themselves.
- Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.
- Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.
- City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.
- People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
- Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.
- Sexual attraction pairs people, but does not match them.
- The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.
- Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.
- A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
- As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
- Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.
- Listening to people keeps them entertained.
- People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
- Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?
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